Premier League Saturday, Gameweek 28: Open Thread

Winter is over according to the Premier League. Beginning today, the yellow balls have been put away and the white balls return to denote that Spring has arrived.

There’s no early kick-off in the Premier League this weekend, so we have a choice of four matches being played from 10am-Noon ET (including the west London derby between Fulham and Chelsea) followed by Southampton versus Liverpool from 12:30pm-2:30pm ET.

Here’s today’s TV/Internet schedule for soccer fans in the United States:

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The big story from today’s action will be the Pardew headbutt which should see him banned from the sideline for the rest of the season. The man never learns. Who knows, Newcastle might even fire him. We shall see.

This story will overshadow Liverpool’s win which happened despite not being at their best. They are now second and definitely title contenders. They have to wait two weeks before playing United away. What a game that should be. Worse than being out of the top 4 for United is the fact that Liverpool will replace them in the CL and might even win the title.

Chelsea keep on winning and are now favorites to win the title. City have 2 games to make up but you’re better off already having the points ratherthan make it up. City will also have to play midweek games which could affect their performance.

Everton win a tough one and substitute Lukaku wins it for them after his loss due to injury. Don’t count out Everton to finish in the top 4 at the expense of Arsenal who had a bad loss at Stoke. Arsenal were very poor and uncharacteristically hardly created chances. They have a tough month coming up and unless they start winning again could drop out of the top 4.

This season’s excitement continues and with 10 games to play we are no closer to a team running away from the pack at the top and the bottom is still congested so any team that goes on a 2-3 game win can move away from the bottom.

Definitely going to be fun to watch the impact of the next ten matches especially for 10th place on down. Newcastle and Southampton will be trouble for everyone since they can play with absolute abandon at this point.

You’d think that would apply to United also, but they seem tighter than a newly wound clock.